upgrade to a branch of statsd that lazily closes ephemeral UDP ports, so that...

upgrade to a branch of statsd that lazily closes ephemeral UDP ports, so that we're not allocating one UDP socket per request when under load.  closes #680

lib/configuration.js

@@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ if (process.env['VAR_PATH']) {
   g_config.var_path = process.env['VAR_PATH'];
 }
 
+// allow statsd to be enabled from the environment
+if (process.env['ENABLE_STATSD']) {
+  g_config.statsd = { enabled: true };
+}
+
 // what host/port shall we bind to?
 g_config.bind_to = {
   host: process.env['IP_ADDRESS'] || process.env['HOST'] || "127.0.0.1",

package.json

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     , "postprocess": "0.0.3"
     , "urlparse": "0.0.1"
     , "uglifycss": "0.0.4"
-    , "node-statsd": "https://github.com/mojodna/node-statsd/tarball/2584c08fad"
+    , "node-statsd": "https://github.com/lloyd/node-statsd/tarball/085b93"
     , "connect-logger-statsd": "0.0.1"
     , "semver": "1.0.12"
     , "compute-cluster": "0.0.4"